Britney Spears ordered to clean up her act
The hits keep coming for Britney Spears, but not the kind that will put platinum records on her walls.
A court commissioner in Spears' child custody dispute called the 25-year-old pop star a “habitual” user in ordering her to undergo random drug and alcohol testing. The question is, does the order come soon enough - and is it strong enough - to keep Spears from losing her two young sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline.
It couldn't have come at a worse time for Spears, who is trying to recover from a series of image-crippling events that include a bizarre head-shaving in February and a ridiculed performance at the MTV Video Music Awards.
On Monday, Superior Court Commissioner Scott M. Gordon required both Spears and Federline to refrain from drinking or using drugs either in the presence of their children or within 12 hours before taking charge of them. He said there was evidence Spears engaged in “habitual, frequent and continuous use of controlled substances and alcohol.”
He also ordered Spears, but not Federline, to undergo random drug and alcohol testing twice a week, according to court documents.
Bowie donates $10,000 to defense fund
David Bowie has donated $10,000 to a legal defense fund for six black teens charged in an alleged attack on a white classmate in the tiny central Louisiana town of Jena.
The British rocker's donation to the Jena Six Legal Defense Fund was announced by the NAACP as thousands of protesters were expected to march through Jena on Thursday in defense of Mychal Bell and five other teens. The group has become known as the Jena Six.
“There is clearly a separate and unequal judicial process going on in the town of Jena,” Bowie said Tuesday in an e-mail statement. “A donation to the Jena Six Legal Defense Fund is my small gesture indicating my belief that a wrongful charge and sentence should be prevented.”
Bell was found guilty on second-degree battery charges June 28 by a six-member, all-white jury. Before the case was overturned by the state 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal, his sentencing had been set for Thursday.
The court said Bell, who was 16 at the time of the alleged December 2006 beating, shouldn't have been tried as an adult.
‘GMA's' Robin Roberts to begin chemotherapy
Robin Roberts, who had surgery last month for breast cancer, was to begin chemotherapy Thursday.
Roberts, co-host of ABC's “Good Morning America,” said during Wednesday's broadcast that she would first go into work “and then head off for my chemotherapy.”
She announced on July 31 that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Roberts, 46, had surgery Aug. 3 and returned to work 10 days later.
- From wire reports
A court commissioner in Spears' child custody dispute called the 25-year-old pop star a “habitual” user in ordering her to undergo random drug and alcohol testing. The question is, does the order come soon enough - and is it strong enough - to keep Spears from losing her two young sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline.
It couldn't have come at a worse time for Spears, who is trying to recover from a series of image-crippling events that include a bizarre head-shaving in February and a ridiculed performance at the MTV Video Music Awards.
On Monday, Superior Court Commissioner Scott M. Gordon required both Spears and Federline to refrain from drinking or using drugs either in the presence of their children or within 12 hours before taking charge of them. He said there was evidence Spears engaged in “habitual, frequent and continuous use of controlled substances and alcohol.”
He also ordered Spears, but not Federline, to undergo random drug and alcohol testing twice a week, according to court documents.
Bowie donates $10,000 to defense fund
David Bowie has donated $10,000 to a legal defense fund for six black teens charged in an alleged attack on a white classmate in the tiny central Louisiana town of Jena.
The British rocker's donation to the Jena Six Legal Defense Fund was announced by the NAACP as thousands of protesters were expected to march through Jena on Thursday in defense of Mychal Bell and five other teens. The group has become known as the Jena Six.
“There is clearly a separate and unequal judicial process going on in the town of Jena,” Bowie said Tuesday in an e-mail statement. “A donation to the Jena Six Legal Defense Fund is my small gesture indicating my belief that a wrongful charge and sentence should be prevented.”
Bell was found guilty on second-degree battery charges June 28 by a six-member, all-white jury. Before the case was overturned by the state 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal, his sentencing had been set for Thursday.
The court said Bell, who was 16 at the time of the alleged December 2006 beating, shouldn't have been tried as an adult.
‘GMA's' Robin Roberts to begin chemotherapy
Robin Roberts, who had surgery last month for breast cancer, was to begin chemotherapy Thursday.
Roberts, co-host of ABC's “Good Morning America,” said during Wednesday's broadcast that she would first go into work “and then head off for my chemotherapy.”
She announced on July 31 that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Roberts, 46, had surgery Aug. 3 and returned to work 10 days later.
- From wire reports
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